Providence: Rhode Island Commercial School, 1908. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed wrappers; 23pp. Fine, unmarked copy. Advice to young business school graduates from the noted financier and bond trader. Touches briefly on labor unrest, advises that students pay no attention to the "agitators and pessimists," there is alway a need... More

New York: Greenberg, 1933. First Edition. On the events leading up to and encompassing the Michigan Bank Holiday and subsequent national banking crisis of 1933. The authors were members of the Wall Street Journal staff. 12mo. Cloth boards; 86pp. Cut-out portion of jacket flap tipped on to front endpaper (jacket... More

New York: Ronald Press, 1938. Second printing. Elementary economics textbook published at the height of the Great Depression, clearly intended as a primer for an American public forced for the first time to comprehend economic dysfunction on a catastrophic scale. Much on New Deal monetary & fiscal policy, social spending... More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1940. First Edition. A non-technical description, backed by numerous case studies, "of the dangers of bigness in business," with examinations of U.S. Steel, the motion picture, anthracite industries, and others. Scarce, in or out of dustjacket. Ernst, a distinguished lawyer and member of the Banking... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Described as a "Narrative History of Wall Street from 1644 to 1908," though only the final chapter deals with Wall Street in the brokerage era. Nicely illustrated with sepia halftone reproductions of contemporary views and documents. Sharp copy. Octavo (21cm). Original green... More

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. First Edition. Jones's uncommon first book, an investigation, based on interviews conducted at the peak of the Great Depression, of middle-class and working-class attitudes towards private property versus collectivism. Following a decade-long journalistic career for Fortune Magazine, Jones would go on to prominence as a stock market... More

New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, 1939. Novelization of the 1929 Columbia Pictures feature film, directed by Roy William Neill and Starring Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle. The film was released just a month after the Crash and features, in its climactic scene, the suicide of a Wall Street big-wig by... More

New York: H.A. Simmons, (1908). First Edition. Presentable copy of this scarce Wall Street novel, in which the thrill of high finance provides a backdrop to extra-marital shenanigans and murder. Frontispiece and several text illustrations by M. Jaediker. Truly uncommon; OCLC gives 4 locations only; not in Hanna. SMITH R-315... More

New York: International Publishers, [1950]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in cream dust jacket printed in green and black; 128pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and lightly edge-worn, including short closed tear at top edge of upper panel not affecting text, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket... More

N.p. [Chicago?]: by the Author, 1907. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Original printed card wrappers; 39pp. Just mild external wear; Very Good to Near Fine. Satire, in Biblical language, of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rail Trust, including thinly-veiled depictions of Morgan, Rockefeller, Landis, etc.More

New York: B.W. Dodge & Company, 1910. First Edition. Socialist conversion novel with some Wall Street content, described by Ahouse as Sinclair's contribution to "the literature of the guileless fool, whose sincerity, innocence, and purity of heart carry him forward to the attainment of wisdom in a generally complacent world."... More

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. Depression-era novel of Wall Street in which a young married couple attempt to play the market, with disastrous results. An uncommon Train title, and one of his few forays outside of crime fiction. HANNA 3552. Octavo (19.5cm). Black cloth boards, stamped in gilt... More